Starting and finishing in the best of the 3 me duckA good East Midlands trio there, me duck.
Starting and finishing in the best of the 3 me duckA good East Midlands trio there, me duck.
Right folks. 2023's challenge is fast running out. Only 4 of us.
Which is a great shame as was hoping for more
So What can we do to attract more participants from this great forum to give the challenge a go in 2024.
Suggestions welcome.
I did it last year and on course to do it this year, I just never signed up.
I'll sign up for 2024 as long as @13 rider and I eventually sort out a bloody ride.
If you really wanted to you could probably join now with details of your Jan-Aug rides. I think I've known people do that before. Or perhaps I'm making that up.
I feel a bit of a failure at having wimped out of this but having switched to shorter rides it means I can be back home mid afternoon. That's a real boon, and it means I can do more hills, which I enjoy. And with the magic Eddington 100 out of the way the impetus has gone.
At my pace a century normally means late afternoon to early evening finish. It normally takes me 9+ hours on the road plus travelling time if I ride out and get a train home, which I prefer to do as I can go to more places that way. Also last year i was really suffering at the end of some of them.
The only downside is that when I put Radio 6 on when I have my post ride bath, after a century it's normally the funk and soul show. But after a weedy metric century I get some kind of mellow jazz program which isn't the same.
Right folks. 2023's challenge is fast running out. Only 4 of us.
Which is a great shame as was hoping for more
So What can we do to attract more participants from this great forum to give the challenge a go in 2024.
Suggestions welcome.
First question is how we draw new people's attention to this thread. Can it, and other annual challenges, be pinned somewhere each January so that people logging on to the site are likely to see them without going and searching?
Secondly, should we allow an 'also-ran' category for people who have missed one or two months in a year but would like to carry on doing and sharing century rides for the rest of the year? It would bring more activity to the thread, and I for one would still be interested in people's rides even if they weren't going to make the full 12/12.
Could you allow upgrades? To be clear I can’t contemplate 100 mile rides at the moment, but some migration through the challenges might be of interest. For example I am signed up to the 50 km or 50 mile challenge yet I find myself doing 100 km most rides. Maybe there are folk reluctant to commit to the larger distances but could do if they find they are going well?
Upgrades? Sorry I don't understand what you mean.
It's always been fine to post rides in multiple challenges as far as I know.
I think this might mean someone who decided that the imperial challenge was too hard and so entered the 100k a month challenge. But in April they think "you know, I've actually exceeded my target and done three 100-milers, not just three 100-km rides. Can I upgrade myself to to the Imperial Century a month challenge?
Another idea might be letting people claim a star for, say, May-April instead of it always being Jan-Dec. I'm not so keen on that idea myself, but it's a thought. It might mean that people might enter in the summer, while they are fit and full of enthusiasm, who wouldn't enter in January, and they may keep it up because when they get to the difficult months, Dec-Feb they already have a few under their belt.